Renaming gets interesting too. The person requesting the rename would have to also chase down all the off-shoots of HN that cache and re-display all the messag

Renaming gets interesting too. The person requesting the rename would have to also chase down all the off-shoots of HN that cache and re-display all the messages in different formats. And then there is archive.org that would have copies of all sites in question. Archive.org isn't going to rename anything.